This time the competition was played at a new venue, Taiheiyo Club - Ichihara Course in Chiba Prefecture, which was a much appreciated change. The course was long (ca 6,500 yards), especially as it was rather wet after several days of rain, and as we played the blue tees, but the players appreciated the challenges although the scoring was not so good, with the exception of a few players at the top.
The individual winner (best net) was Toyoaki Uchida (FCCJ) with a net 70. He also took the FCCJ Golf Cup. Second, with a net score of 75 was Kaj Forsell (FCCJ) and third Mats Persson (SCCJ), 78, who took the SCCJ Golf Cup.
Yuji Ono (SCCJ) had the best gross score, 85.
The winners of the longest drive were Masaoki Fujita (FCCJ) and Johnny Wetterborn (SCCJ longest drive trophy) Near pin winners where Alan Heggie (SCCJ), Masaki Saito (FCCJ), Johnny Wetterborn (SCCJ) and Tommy Kullberg (SCCJ).
We would like to thank the title sponsor Stora Enso Japan and Nokia Japan, Oakwood, Asian Tigers Worldwide Mowers, as well as all the players who brought nice prizes to the competition. Our thanks go also to the Taiheiyo Club Ichihara Course and all the other staff for again helping us making this a great event at reasonable costs.
A final note; Although SCCJ was a worthy winner, FCCJ was perhaps a bit unlucky when Tuomo Kuuppo hurt his back on the 13th hole and had to take maximum score (double par+1) on the remaining 7 holes. If he had been able to play on normally, his score would probably have been 15-20 strokes better. FCCJ lost by 12 strokes...

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Pos.

Player

Company

Team

HCP

Gross

Net

1

Toyoaki Uchida

UPM-Kymmene Japan KK

FCCJ

16

86

70

2.

Kaj Forsell

Finpro

FCCJ

18

93

75

3.

Mats Person

Höganäs Japan K.K.

SCCJ

10

88

78

4.

Yuji Ono

Toyota Industries Corporation

SCCJ

6

85

79

5.

Alan Heggie

Atlas Copco K.K.

SCCJ

21

100

79

6.

Kimio Hashida

Nokia Japan

FCCJ

17

97

80

7.

Hiroaki Sugawara

Finn Corporation

FCCJ

20

100

80

8.

Eiji Takagi

Individual Member

SCCJ

9

90

81

9.

Tsutomu Fujii

Vaisala K.K.

FCCJ

22

104

82

10.

Eiji Yoshida *)

Kajima Corporation

SCCJ

24

106

82

11.

Carl-Gustav Eklund

Höganäs Japan K.K.

SCCJ

16

100

84

12.

Osamu Hoshino

Gujita Metal Trading

FCCJ

23

107

84

13.

Hiroaki Sakurai

Vaisala K.K.

FCCJ

26

110

84

14.

Timo Varhama

UPM-Kymmene Japan KK

FCCJ

22

107

85

15.

Masaoki Fujita

Coil Center Fujita Co., Ltd.

FCCJ

19

105

86

16.

Jukka Viitanen

Tekes

FCCJ

24

110

86

17.

Örjan Pettersson

Thule Japan K.K.

SCCJ

30

116

86

18.

Hiroshi Muira *)

Metso Paper K.K.

FCCJ

19

106

87

19.

Naota Kusumi

Stora Enso Japan

FCCJ

26

111

87

20.

Seppo Kimanen

Embassy of Finland

FCCJ

19

107

88

21.

Hirokuni Yoshida

Ourokumpu K.K.

FCCJ

26

114

88

22.

Clas G. Bystedt

FCCJ

FCCJ

22

111

89

23.

Carmen Tassone

International Solution Group

SCCJ

14

104

90

24.

Eero Tammila

Finnair

FCCJ

18

110

92

25.

Erik Ullner

Konigstedt Ltd.

FCCJ

20

112

92

26.

Tommy Kullberg

Kullberg & Associates

SCCJ

28

120

92

27.

Masahiro Kuroda

Individual member

FCCJ

23

116

93

28.

Seppo Rantanen

Koitto K.K.

FCCJ

18

112

94

29.

Jonny Wetterborn

Nippon Ericsson K.K.

SCCJ

13

109

96

30.

Masaki Saito

Vaisala K.K.

FCCJ

28

124

96

31.

Lennart Johansson

Individual member

SCCJ

30

135

105

32.

Tuomo Kuuppo **)

Stora Enso Japan

FCCJ

20

126

106

*) Eiji Yoshida and Hiroshi Miura mixed up their scorecards and signed wrong cards, so technically they should have been disqualified, but they were now given same score.
**) due to back injury, took max. score on last 7 holes.

Note: if players have same net, the one with lower handicap wins, if still same, the older player wins.